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This Week in Texas Music History: Ruth Bingaman Smith
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of February (2/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child prodigy whose tastes ranged from classi...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
This Week in Texas Music History: Jimmy Day
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of January (1/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who preferred to let others have the spotli...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Shelley Lee Alley
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of July (7/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an alley cat who wrote hits for some of country music...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Erbie Bowser
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Redbricks and Weatherboards
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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I’ve lived in Melbourne’s suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to liste...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
We Thought He Had a Black Heart
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is m...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Producer Profile: Doug Hawes-Davis
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Doug Hawes-Davis, Credit: Courtesy of Doug Hawes-Davis and ITVS
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis about his documentary entitled Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 07/21/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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WHILE OTHERS SLEEP...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Stinky Feet Mosquito Trap
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you’re doing scientific research!

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Decoding the mysteries of Bay Area traffic
From: KALW
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If you added up all of the time that all of us spend stuck in Bay Area traffic, it would average out to about 40 million hours a year. It doesn’t t...

  • Added: May 12, 2012
  • Length: 06:52
The Story of New Orleans' J&M Recording Studios
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: Fats Domino in J&M Studios
New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Robofish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. This led an engineer and a zoologist to create a fish-shaped robot...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shrinking Deer
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated on islands, large animals can become small like the pygmy mammoth, and small animals LARGE like the Galapagos Tortoise. Yeah, everything’s...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Roof Gardens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Biophilia: For Your Sanity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gnarls Barkley’s award winning song “Crazy” starts off with the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind.” Perhaps you can relate.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nice Lice
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Lice aren’t nice, unless you’re wild mice.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Indie on Demand Reviews THE INTERRUPTERS
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A Review of the Latest Documentary from HOOP DREAMS' Steve James

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Virus Battery
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
White Shark Cafe
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sharks, it seems, are not unpredictable nomads. They're more like commuters: As predictable in their travels as the office carpool.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health Factors Threaten Gorillas – But Why?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dynamic Ticketing
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Dynamic ticketing, where the price of admission fluctuates, is now gaining popularity among professional sports teams. They’re following the lead o...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Solidarity Sleepout
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Standing together for homeless and hungry youth.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Russian and American Travel Writers
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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During the Cold War of the 20th century, Russians and Americans saw each other as rivals. But as Kelley Libby reports, that rivalry was cultivated ...

Bought by KENW and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
One man’s trash is Arthur Boone’s recycling
From: KALW
Caption: Arthur Boone is a recycling educator and consultant
Californians do a pretty good job thinking twice before throwing things away ... we divert more than 60% of our waste away from landfills. But what...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 06:46

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